A mandroid (played in an appropriately stolid manner by Patrick Reynolds) vows to get revenge on evil mad scientist Abbott Reeves (well essayed with lip-smacking villainous gusto by Roy Dotrice). He's assisted by tough beautiful techie Nora Hunter (a winningly spunky portrayal by the fetching Denise Crosby) and mysterious ninja Kuji (earnest and amiable Conan Lee). Director Peter Manoogian, working from a gloriously offbeat and ridiculous script by Paul De Meo and Danny Bilson, relates the entertainingly asinine story at a snappy pace, maintains an engaging lighthearted tone throughout, and stages the action with aplomb. Moreover, it's acted with zest by a game cast: Veteran actor Andrew Prine brings a delightfully self-deprecating humor and easygoing appeal to his colorful character of scruffy low-life native guide Harry Fontana, Peter Schrum has a ball as mean fat hombre Ray, and Peggy Mannix provides plenty of sass and spunk as Harry's antagonistic rival Bayou Betty. The mandroid's funky tank, a cutesy robot scout called Spot, a lively barroom brawl, a subplot concerning time travel, and a tribe of pesky caveman further enhance the infectiously wacky merriment. As a tasty extra plus, Crosby rocks a wet t-shirt in one scene. Mac Ahlberg's slick cinematography gives the picture an impressive polished look. Kudos are also in order for John Buechler's nifty make-up f/x and the spirited score by Bob Summers. A choice cheesy chunk of vintage 80's kitsch.

The essence of being human is to fail, and in that ELIMINATORS is a human movie. There's a mandriod, the dude is worried about his leg units, this movie also has a ninja. Was this movie used to launder drug money into or out of the country? Was this movie used by the C.I.A for their M.K.Ultra mind control experiments? Did anyone know while they were making this movie that it would look like this in the end? These are the questions one must wrestle with when viewing ELIMINATORS. Actors appear in this movie but they are seemingly unaware that filming has begun, this movie features a director whom probably had some sort of vision however misguided that vision turned out to be. Some person some human being put forth effort to make this movie and they failed.

Basically this movie doesn't have one good idea of its own and that's why it 'borrows' much from other movies but it doesn't do this very good or effectively.Main problem with this movie is that it picks a strange approach with its story. What could and should had been a cyborg action flick is now an adventure movie through the jungle, without ever becoming a good, tense or exciting one to watch. The movie is basically constantly more of the same, when new characters emerge, who for some reason want to see our main heroes dead. The story picks just such an interesting and uninspired approach. It's main premise still lets the movie sound good but the actual end result is simply a failure. It just isn't the best going movie.The movie makes some strange twists and turns in an attempt to give the movie an adventurous and perhaps even an epic kind of feeling over it. Needless to say they failed miserably.The movie has some silly futuristic gadgets and futuristic images in it, like you could only expect from a silly '80s flick. Of course all of its special effects aren't quite top-notch looking yet but I have to admit that for 1986 standards it simply is not too bad.I think this movie its intentions were quite serious but however the end result of course is nothing but a typical '80's B-movie and not a very good one either. It's one with a bad cast and crew involved. The music is dreadful and doesn't even sound like it got written for this movie at all. All of the other production values are all also really lacking. Same can be said for the script, that also doesn't really feature the best dialog imaginable.So even though they aren't being helped with a good script or dialog, also the actors themselves are bad and lacking in their skills. Guess they just went along with the cheapest actors available at the moment.Perhaps the movie would had still been better to watch with some more action in it. Instead now all we are having are same lame small attempts at action and also lacks a nice spectacular and memorable finale. The movie lacks 2 or 3 real big action sequences, that could had really spiced up things a little.This movie unfortunately makes a lot of wrong choices.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

An abysmally bad buddy-buddy-buddy-buddy movie with Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation). Laughable scenes: the animation of SPOT, Nora Hunter's robot, and the bar brawl that occurs when riverboat guides battle over who gets to take Denise down the river. (Maybe they're all trekkies?)